Oil Tanker Collides with a cargo ship – 32 crew members missing

BEIJING: Around 32 crew members, including 30 Iranians and 2 Bangladeshis, have gone missing after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship off the coast of east China.

Oil tanker registered with panama was carrying 136,000 tonnes of oil condensate and it got caught fire after it collided with a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter at around 8 pm yesterday, the transport ministry said.

The collision took place in waters about 160 sea miles east of the Yangtze River’s estuary.

The 32 missing crew members were all from the oil tanker.

All the 21 crew members of the bulk freighter have been rescued, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.